The Struggle Is Real.

So before we went up to get our photo op with Gillian Anderson there was a guy who was being incredibly demanding and controlling of her. He had two photos with her and for the second he actually said the words, “Now why don’t you actually smile pretty for this one?” in the rudest tone I’ve heard. Needless to say I wanted to punch him as well as Gillian. As he left the room she’s like “why don’t you fuck off?” and threw up her two middle fingers. So for our pictures I was as livid as her and asked if she’d like to flip off the camera for the man before and she replied with, “oh yeah.” That’s how our picture happened.

I cannot describe how angry and upset I still am at this man. How about people actually treat celebrities with the respect they deserve? Gillian Anderson did not have to take time out of her busy as hell life just to take a picture with you. I wish I would have stood up to him and I’m still kicking myself for it but to see her treated so rudely still rubs me the wrong way. I wish I knew who this man was so I could have a chat with him.

From the script for “My Struggle” (x)

                                I had a vision of how our life would be

I couldn’t remember, but I did some googling for you, anon – it’s from Providence:

(image source) 

On the right. Good try, my friend! 

There’s also the one in Bad Blood where the crew member hands David a piece of wood that is supposed to come from the chair he’s broken up. He breaks it, and then a crew member’s hand can be clearly seen coming in from the left side and placing the stake he is supposed to use on top of the rest of the broken pieces. I took a screen cap, but it’s much more apparent in the video (at 34:05 in the copy I have):

I put an arrow where the hand is. (And lightened it up a zillion percent.)

I know that at least for some episodes, starting in S4 or S5 I think, they shot the episodes in widescreen but they were aired at 4:3. So that accounts for some of the almost-out-of-frame stuff – at least for the Bad Blood one, the hand WAS out of frame when the episode actually aired, because they cut off the sides of what they actually filmed, so probably no one noticed. And only when they released the full versions for the DVD did the hand reveal itself. Whoops. 

For my own entertainment I also found the pictures of David’s not-fully-costumed moments:

Gillian: WOOOWWWWW, we were great! What great commentators we were! 

David: It’s too bad we can’t do that for every show.

Gillian: Yeah…We breathed. Into the microphone.

(both crack up)